Dr. Yolanda A. Rankin, an Assistant Professor in the School of Information, has been awarded a $342,566 Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to fund her research which examines the lived intersectional experiences of Black women in computing. Her project, titled “Building a Sisterhood in Computing (BASiC),” aims to develop a deeper understanding of the …
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News about the research activities of the FSU College of Communication & Information
iSchool Professor Receives NSF Grant
Clayton Named AEJMC Emerging Scholar
Dr. Russell Clayton is an Assistant Professor and Founding Director of the Cognition and Emotion Lab (CEL) in the School of Communication. He has recently been named an Emerging Scholar by the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC). As one of only four Emerging Scholars selected, he will be recognized and presented …
CONTINUE READINGSCSD Associate Professor Published in American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology
Associate Professor in the School of Communication Science and Disorders, Kelly Farquharson, and her team were recently published in the American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology. This publication is the result of a multi-site research group lovingly referred to as “BILL,” or Brain Injury, Language, and Literacy. The team is composed of two Traumatic Brain Injury …
CONTINUE READINGProfessor Shares Cyberbullying Research Across Europe
Written by Dr. Shuyuan Ho. Associate Professor Shuyuan Mary Ho of FSU School of Information presented her research, “Charged language on Twitter: A predictive model of cyberbullying to prevent victimization,” in Munich, Germany, in December 2019. Dr. Ho gave a presentation at the Workshop on Information Security and Privacy as part of the International Conference …
CONTINUE READINGDoc Students Investigate the Future of Streaming Sites
Vaibhav Diwanji and Abigail Reed, doctoral candidates in the School of Communication, have been published in the Computers in Human Behavior Journal, a publication that addresses human interactions with technologies, especially in the new media environments. Their article, “Don’t just watch, join in: Exploring information behavior and copresence on Twitch,” provides theoretical insights into understanding …
CONTINUE READINGMeet Comm School Ph.D. Candidate Nicholas Sellers
1. Where did you grow up? I grew up in Pace, Florida which is about twenty minutes east over the causeway from Pensacola. There was a peanut field across the street from my high school if that gives you any sort of context. 2. What made you choose FSU? Perhaps it had a lot to …
CONTINUE READINGMeet iSchool Ph.D. Graduate Cheryl Booth
Part of our CCI Doctoral Student 20 Questions series, we get to know Cheryl Booth. Cheryl graduated FSU with her Ph.D. in Information just four days ago, on December 13, 2019. Congratulations, Cheryl! 1. Where did you grow up? I grew up in Corpus Christi, Texas and Falmouth, Massachusetts. 2. What made you choose FSU? …
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